ecp training courses for professionals - child protection
TRAINING FOR PROFESSIONALS | WIDER WORKFORCE | Work with children under 18

Child Protection Awareness

Course Outline

Statutory training meeting the requirement of the ‘robust 3-yearly training’ for whole staff communities. This course is essential for all professionals working with children and families. Exploring Duty of Care in line with Local Safeguarding Children Partnership (formally LSCB) procedures.

We are able to provide bespoke training including: SEND / Faith / Sports / Leisure / Theatre & Performing Arts / Holiday and Residential settings Email us direct to make an enquiry about a bespoke version of our courses if not listed above.

Course includes:

  • Understanding of national guidance, procedures and ‘duty of care’
  • Recognising the four categories of abuse
  • Ensuring a response of logging and reporting of concerns
  • Identifying and responding effectively to a safeguarding concern including the role of the Designated Safeguarding Lead / Team
  • Exploring effective safeguarding cultures and staff professional behaviour
  • Understanding whistleblowing and sharing professional concerns
  • Exploration of child-on-child abuse including online risk
  • Exploring Domestic abuse and so- called Honour Based Abuse
  • Exploration of Mental Health
  • Recognising the risk of Exploitation including County Lines and Radicalisation



Target Audience

All professionals working with children under 18 and their families.


A consultant can be in touch following your booking to ensure a bespoke approach is taken to the delivery of your course. If this is required, please let us know in the ‘additional information’ section of your booking form.

Please contact for individual sessions pricing.

FAQs

What level training is this course?

Since the implementation of Safeguarding Partnerships, most sectors have moved away from using the term ‘levels’. The expectation is that you will undertake training which is relevant to the role you take in the organisation.

For example: Child Protection Awareness – would be completed by every member of a staff community.

Child Protection Awareness training would have previously been known as level 1 – basic child protection training.


What is the difference between face-to-face and live virtual training options?

As far as possible, our Child Protection Awareness training is as close to being the same as they can be! All the required content is covered to the highest standard, and we aim to keep as much interaction and engagement in all of our sessions as we do in our face-to-face training.

Face-to-face is our preferred method of training, but we know this is not always possible so have made our live virtual and pre-recorded courses available so you don’t have to miss out on being able to access our courses.


Do I need this training for my role?

This training is a statutory requirement for all members of your staff community (Including leadership & management) to complete and renew at least once every 3 years – alongside annual safeguarding update training.


Will I receive a certificate?

You will receive a PDF certificate for attending our training sessions. Child Protection Awareness Training with ECP is CPD certified. You need to ensure you are available and engaged for the full duration of the training session in order to receive your certificate.


How far in advance can I book the training?

You can book your training as far in advance as you like! Some times of the year are especially busy so we advise you book up to a year or more in advance, especially if there is a specific date and time you would like to secure. If you know your training will be up for renewal the sooner you get the training date confirmed the more likely ECP will have availability to deliver your training.


How many people can attend the training?

Our face-to-face training numbers vary from course to course, and also take into consideration the size of the space we will be delivering the training in. The size of groups can vary.

Our virtual delivery of introduction to safeguarding adults has no minimum number of attendees, maximum number of attendees depends on the size of your organisation.

On your booking form, you will be asked how many delegates need to access this training. From this we will be able to ensure we can meet the needs of your organisation.


How do I book this training?

Our training is booked using the online booking form via the ‘BOOK NOW’ button on the Course tab of this page. Once completed, you will receive confirmation that your form has been submitted, then you will receive an email confirmation of your booking. Bookings are not confirmed until you have received this as we may have questions we need to ask you or the date you request may not be available.

If you would like to contact us to check availability or ask any further questions before completing the booking form, please call us on 01727 808340 or via the chat function on the website.

All availability is managed on a first come first served basis and we cannot reserve dates, so by completing the booking form quickly you are most likely to get your preferred date.


What information will I need in order to make a booking?

To complete our booking form, we will need to know how many delegates will be accessing the training, which date you would like the training to be delivered, and invoicing details of how payment will be made.

Once the booking form is submitted, we will contact you if we have any further questions.


Reviews

The training was very informative and interactive. Thoroughly enjoyed the training! Carly was really professional, helpful and very informative. Training was very well presented”
– Family Support Worker, InspireAll


Excellent delivery”
– Support worker, Youth Plug In




ECP will send you an email with the relevant links to each session to be shared with participants. Participants will then be able to register themselves for their session.

You can view our joining instructions below:

Participants will have access to their allocated session, for a set time period, where they can access the content when they wish.

All courses have specific dates and times which participants must attend. Courses that are 6 hours in duration will be delivered in 2 x 3-hour sessions.
Questions can be submitted during the self-paced webinar. All questions will then be collated and a written response created at the end of the webinar period. This will be made available to you the following week.

Live sessions have interactive elements which include voting in polls, audio interaction, raising hands and opportunities for Q & A.
Yes - The sessions are closed sessions. Participants will be informed when registering whether or not webcam and microphone access is required for their specific course. The data collated from participants is their first name, surname, role title and email address – unless additional data is requested by the client. A disclaimer is provided, and data will be deleted once shared with you.
Attendee report - including engagement data.
Q & A report from self-paced sessions - which will be sent to you the following week for you to cascade.
Feedback Report – a survey completed after the session.
Post course handouts – sent out to every attendee.